It ’s become decorum to place your phone atop the restaurant table before ( and while ) you dine . But just because it ’s the condition quo does n’t mean it ’s not annoying and arrant . employ thisbrillianttest of will to penalize pathetic talk - and - texters .
I ’ll admit I ’m as shamefaced as the residual when it comes to the smartphone at mealtime routine : I ’m texting someone else , reading my e-mail , or skimming the Wikipedia entranceway for the Ottoman – Venetian War ( 1570–1573 ) while someone else is trying to talk . “ Uh huh . Yeah . Head nod . Head nod . ” Then they do it . We sit there like a crowd of cyborgs , suck down our protein and nutrients under the guise of human assemblage . No more !
Smartphone Roulette ( also known as The Phone Stack ) set money on the personal credit line . And if there ’s one thing humans love more than smartphones and texting , it ’s money . The dominion are unsubdivided :
1 . When you sit down , place your telephone set on the tabular array , face down . You may heap them if you ’d care to be extra uttermost , though this is not required .
2 . Nobody is allow to touch their telephone — not even if it phone , vibrates , or chimes .
3 . If you contain your phone before the repast is over , you pay the total check . No exceptions . Even if you just filch that phone ever so somewhat to see who texted you . Your treat .
- potential exclusion : you are having a infant / your wife is have a child / a babe necessitate help / other biography - threatening circumstance . But those are house rules you may decide as a mesa .
Happy gambling . Now you just need to figure out what to talk about at your next meal . [ Some Obscure TumblrviaKemptviaFoodBeast ]
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